Amitabh Bachchan Worst Movie: Amitabh Bachchan started his Bollywood career in the 70’s. In the year 1973, Amitabh Bachchan’s first superhit film Zanjeer came and after this Amitabh Bachchan gave some flops and many hit films. People liked his acting style very much but there came a time when Amitabh Bachchan’s films back to back flopped. In the year 1997, a film of Amitabh came which is said to be the worst film of his career.
Yes, we are talking about the 1997 film ‘Mrityudata’ in which Amitabh Bachchan was seen as the lead actor. His heroine in this was Dimple Kapadia and the audience probably did not like their on-screen romance. How much did the film ‘Mrityudata’ earn at the box office, what was its budget, let us give you complete details related to all these.
Amitabh Bachchan’s mega flop film ‘Mrityudata’
In the year 1995, the megastar opened a company named Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL). This company made many films but all of them were back to back flops. This company bought many shares and invested money in other places also, but in about 5 to 6 years all the money was lost and this company went bankrupt. You will get to read about this everywhere, because this was the period when Amitabh Bachchan became dependent on every penny after becoming a superstar.
However, he made a comeback with the TV reality show Kaun Banega Crorepati. Along with this, his two films ‘Mohabbatein’ and ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ became superhits and Amitabh Bachchan again made a tremendous comeback. The film ‘Mrityudata’ was also made under the same company but this film flopped badly.
Box office collection of ‘Mrityudata’
According to a report in Bollywood Hungama, the budget of the film Mrityudata was said to be around Rs 17 crores while the film barely collected Rs 12 to 13 crores at the box office. However, one song of the film was a superhit which was sung by Amitabh Bachchan and Daler Mehndi. The lyrics of that song are ‘Na Na Na Na Re’ and this song was very popular at that time. The film ‘Mrityudata’ is considered to be the biggest flop of Amitabh Bachchan’s career. Currently you can listen to that superhit song of this film here-
Star cast and crew members of ‘Mrityudata’
The film Mrityudata, directed by Mehul Kumar, was produced by Amitabh Bachchan. Amitabh Bachchan was seen in the lead role in this film. Apart from these, actors like Karisma Kapoor, Pran, Dimple Kapadia, Paresh Rawal, Arbaaz Ali Khan, Mukesh Rishi, Mustaq Khan, Deepak Tijori, Farida Jalal were seen in the film.
Why couldn’t Jaya Bachchan watch ‘Mrityudata’ Puri?
In the last nine years from 1990 to 1999, most of Amitabh Bachchan’s films started flopping. The audience was also bored with Big B’s same type of films. The film ‘Mrityudata’ was released on 25 May 1997. The audience had also rejected this film. According to media reports, Amitabh Bachchan had said some things related to the screening of this film in an interview.
Amitabh Bachchan had said, ‘Yes, my latest film Mrityudata has flopped. I consider myself responsible for this. Jaya has been the biggest critic of my films. When she got up and left before the interval during the screening, I understood that this film would not work. When I asked her, she said that she found this film boring from the beginning.